Jenny Bhatt is an author, a literary translator, a book critic, and a 2025 NEA Translation Fellow. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Dallas and has previously taught at various organizations, including Writing Workshops Dallas, and the PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship Program.

Her story collection, Each of Us Killers, won a 2020 Foreword INDIES Award. Her literary translation, Ratno Dholi: Dhumketu’s Best Short Stories was shortlisted for a 2021 Valley of Words Award (US edition: The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories). One of her short stories was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021 and another received a 'Distinguished Mention' in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024. Her short fiction has also appeared in several other anthologies.

Her nonfiction has been published at NPR, The Guardian, The Washington Post, BBC Culture, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Publishers Weekly, The Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, Poets & Writers, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Star Tribune, and more.

She is the founder of Desi Books, a global forum that showcased South Asian literature from the world over (active from March 2020 to February 2023.)

She is a Ph.D. candidate (Literature) at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she also teaches Creative Writing and Literary Translation courses. Her research interests are Translation Studies, Literary Translation, South Asian Literary Studies, and Postmodern and Contemporary Literature.